Toward the end of waste: Reflections on a new ecology of industry

Daedalus

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 199-212

  Frosch, Robert A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

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EID: 0002304123     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. See Iddo K. Wernick, Robert Herman, Shekhar Govind, and Jesse H. Ausubel, "Materialization and Dematerialization: Measures and Trends," Dædalus 125 (3) (Summer 1996).
2. Energy wastes are also huge. Even in the most efficient economies, perhaps 10 percent of the energy extracted and generated from primary sources actually serves the end user. On the connection between material and energy wastes, see Nebojša Nakićenović, "Freeing Energy from Carbon," Dædalus 125 (3) (Summer 1996).
3. See Robert A. Frosch, "Industrial Ecology: Adapting Technology for a Sustainable World," Environment 37 (10) (1995): 15-24, 34-37;
4. Robert A. Frosch, "Industrial Ecology: Minimizing the Impact of Industrial Waste," Physics Today 47 (11) (1994): 63-68;
5. and Robert A. Frosch, "Industrial Ecology: A Philosophical Introduction," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 89 (1992): 800-803.
6. For a general discussion of the meaning of sustainability, see Chauncey Starr, "Sustaining the Human Environment: The Next Two Hundred Years," Dædalus 125 (3) (Summer 1996)
7. and Robert M. Solow, "An Almost Practical Step Toward Sustainability," Resources Policy 19 (3) (1993): 162-172.